Bananas — Yield in Nicaragua
Nicaragua: Bananas — Yield was 53,312 kg/ha in 2023. ▲ Rising
Bananas — Yield in Nicaragua, 1961–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in kg/ha.
Analysis
In 2023, bananas — yield in Nicaragua stood at 53,312 kg/ha.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 14.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, bananas — yield in Nicaragua peaked at 67,965 kg/ha in 1978 and was at its lowest, 26,268 kg/ha, in 2000.
That places Nicaragua 9th out of 134 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the top 10%.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 63 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 40,828 kg/ha | 33,158 kg/ha | 56,351 kg/ha | 9 |
| 1970s | 58,332 kg/ha | 37,500 kg/ha | 67,965 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1980s | 44,420 kg/ha | 38,451 kg/ha | 52,687 kg/ha | 10 |
| 1990s | 44,379 kg/ha | 34,706 kg/ha | 55,535 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2000s | 50,183 kg/ha | 26,268 kg/ha | 65,534 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2010s | 56,025 kg/ha | 46,754 kg/ha | 65,809 kg/ha | 10 |
| 2020s | 55,434 kg/ha | 53,312 kg/ha | 58,834 kg/ha | 4 |
Countries ranked near Nicaragua
- 6 Costa Rica 57,338 kg/ha compare
- 7 Bhutan 56,155 kg/ha compare
- 8 Panama 55,741 kg/ha compare
- 10 Puerto Rico 52,205 kg/ha compare
- 11 Guatemala 49,726 kg/ha compare
- 12 Republic of Korea 49,628 kg/ha compare
More agriculture & rural data for Nicaragua
- Agriculture share gdp 14.48 (2025)
- Value added in the agricultural sector as of gdp vs gdp per capita 14.48 (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.3% (2024)
- Rural population 40.6% (2025)
- Rural population growth 0.9% (2025)
- Rural population 2.84 million (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 14.5% (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added 3.22 billion current US$ (2025)
- Bananas — Production 90,616 t (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is bananas — yield in Nicaragua?
- Bananas — yield in Nicaragua was 53,312 kg/ha in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest bananas — yield recorded in Nicaragua?
- The highest recorded value was 67,965 kg/ha in 1978.
- What is the lowest bananas — yield recorded in Nicaragua?
- The lowest recorded value was 26,268 kg/ha in 2000.
- How does Nicaragua rank for bananas — yield?
- Nicaragua ranks 9th out of 134 countries with data for 2023.
- Is bananas — yield rising or falling in Nicaragua?
- Over the last ten years it is up 14.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Nicaragua data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Bananas — Yield. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Crop and livestock statistics are recorded for 278 products, covering the following categories: 1) CROPS PRIMARY: Cereals, Citrus Fruit, Fibre Crops, Fruit, Oil Crops, Oil Crops and Cakes in Oil Equivalent, Pulses, Roots and Tubers, Sugar Crops, Treenuts and Vegetables. Data are expressed in terms of area harvested, production quantity and yield. Cereals: Area and production data on cereals relate to crops harvested for dry grain only. Cereal crops harvested for hay or harvested green for food, feed or silage or used for grazing are therefore excluded. 2) CROPS PROCESSED: Beer of barley; Cotton lint; Cottonseed; Margarine, short; Molasses; Oil, coconut (copra); Oil, cottonseed; Oil, groundnut; Oil, linseed; Oil, maize; Oil, olive, virgin; Oil, palm; Oil, palm kernel; Oil, rapeseed; Oil, safflower; Oil, sesame; Oil, soybean; Oil, sunflower; Palm kernels; Sugar Raw Centrifugal; Wine. 3) LIVE ANIMALS: Animals live n.e.s.; Asses; Beehives; Buffaloes; Camelids, other; Camels; Cattle; Chickens; Ducks; Geese and guinea fowls; Goats; Horses; Mules; Pigeons, other birds; Pigs; Rabbits and hares; Rodents, other; Sheep; Turkeys. 4) LIVESTOCK PRIMARY: Beeswax; Eggs (various types); Hides buffalo, fresh; Hides, cattle, fresh; Honey, natural; Meat (ass, bird nes, buffalo, camel, cattle, chicken, duck, game, goat, goose and guinea fowl, horse, mule, Meat nes, meat other camelids, Meat other rodents, pig, rabbit, sheep, turkey); Milk (buffalo, camel, cow, goat, sheep); Offals, nes; Silk-worm cocoons, reelable; Skins (goat, sheep); Snails, not sea; Wool, greasy. 5) LIVESTOCK PROCESSED: Butter (of milk from sheep, goat, buffalo, cow); Cheese (of milk from goat, buffalo, sheep, cow milk); Cheese of skimmed cow milk; Cream fresh; Ghee (cow and buffalo milk); Lard; Milk (dry buttermilk, skimmed condensed, skimmed cow, skimmed dried, skimmed evaporated, whole condensed, whole dried, whole evaporated); Silk raw; Tallow; Whey (condensed and dry); Yoghurt.